Chap 1 Geo basics
The study of world, people, and landscapes created
What is Geography
Earth making one complete circle around itself,
What is a rotation
Short term changes in air for given place and time
What is weather
total number of people in a given area
What is a population
The waterway that Lewis and Clark traveled up
What is the Missouri river
A spherical map of the world
What is a globe
Earth material before it reaches the surface
What is magma
permantely frozen layers of ground
What is permafrost
the measure of the number of people in a given area
What is population density
The Physical makeup of the soil/land in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec
What is the Canadian Shield
The line dividing the World north to south
What is the Prime Meridian
Earth regions close to the equator
What are tropics
spread of desert-like conditions
What is Desertification
The spread of cultural traits from one region to another
What is cultural diffusion
The Geographic line that divides North America from East to West
What is the Continental divide
A specific description of a place
What is Absolute location
Process of rocks being broken down into smaller rocks through atmosphere
What is weathering
a group of plants and animals that depend on their environment and each other to survive
What is an ecosystem
The annual number of births per 1,000 people
What is birthrate
The original government of Canada, run by British and French fur traders
What is the Hudson Bay company
The 5 themes of Geography (in no specific order)
What are Location, Place, Regions, Movement, Human-environment interactions
percentage of Earth that is water
what 71%
Place where two different air masses of differing temperatures or moisture content meet
What is a front
a system based on the government owning a making all financial decisions
What is a command economy
The term for California's area of production of computer technology
What is "Silicon Valley"